Jack Nicklaus Quotes

I'm probably one of the most competitive people you'll ever meet. I want to dunk on my nephews. I'll block my 2-year-old's shot to make it hard on them.

I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older - 10 years and 5 years - so it was a challenge, but I have some of the most amazing memories with my big brothers.

My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.

I was a Division I college athlete, and I grew up with five brothers and two sisters. I've always been a competitor.

I was incredibly competitive, growing up with two brothers; we'd argue and play against each other in the garden continuously. If we have a competition, I want to beat them.

My coaches sometimes say I'm a little bit too competitive. But I want to win, and I feel like we should win every game.

Our family is very, very competitive. But it's a fun and inspiring sort of competitive. It makes you proud of what you do and makes you want to work hard and do all your homework so you can win.

My mom would watch me giving speeches on TV and she'd call and say, 'I don't know who this son is.'

My father has always enjoyed games... always with a combination of the fun and social side of it, but also always highly competitive.

I like the idea of teaching kids how to lose. That's a really important lesson in life. I don't like the idea of doing leadline where everyone gets a blue ribbon. I think it's unrealistic for kids and teaches the wrong lesson.

My parents were proud of the fact that I was playing cricket, they used to ferry me around during the weekends to play the game.

When I was 15, I used to go with my sister to her youth games because she was really good.

Honestly, I don't like trash talk, because we gonna fight anyways, right? We don't need to trash talk.

My mom's a character. My dad was my coach, but my mom was the one who was hard on me. I would come home from a game in high school after throwing five touchdowns and she would say, 'Oh, you played all right. You can do a little better.'

Within football, there is a lot of trash talk, a lot of stuff that's not been made aware to everybody.

I just like to win. No hard feelings, I'll still go eat lunch with you after, but I'll kick your butt and then have lunch with you. That's the kind of competitor I am.

When you see that your kids are proud of you, that they're excited to wear your jersey and cheer you on, it doesn't get better.

My son William and my daughter Amy are both really into their hockey now and I can enjoy watching that.

The first time I played basketball was with my dad and my older brother Thanasis.

If I was playing a game of Sorry or checkers with my nine-year-old, I hate losing. That's just my makeup and personality.

My daughter, she loves gymnastics. I take her to gymnastics and watch her compete. It's fun to see something you have rub off on your kids. My son, as much as I love to get away from the game, he really does love basketball. He just wants to shoot on this little hoop I got him. It's just awesome to see them smile all the time.

My son understands a lot and he's pushing me really hard. He always tells me 'you need to win, you need to be good.' He's happy to see that his father is racing and I think he understands step by step more about Formula One and he really likes it.

I just play the game. I'm used to trash talking.